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If on registered premises there are unclean filling materials,
the occupier shall be guilty of an offence; and it is also an offence
to sell or offer for sale any article which is upholstered with unclean
filling materials (second-hand articles are excepted).
Inspections of the registered premises were made during the
year, and 6 samples of rag flock and other fillings were taken for
analysis. The results were satisfactory with the exception of a
sample of woollen mixture felt. This was found to contain 45 parts of
chlorine per 100,000, whereas the permitted maximum is 30. Appropriate
warnings were given in this case.
Description No. of samples
Algerian Fibre 1
Cotton Felt 3
Woollen mixture felt 2
PET ANIMALS ACT, 1951
This Act requires that no person shall keep a pet shop
except under the authority of a licence issued by the Council and in
compliance with any conditions specified in the licence.
During the year, 9 premises were licensed under the Act.
The general conditions for pet shops approved by the Council are
those recommended for their constituent councils by the Metropolitan
Boroughs' Standing Joint Committee.
HEALTH EDUCATION
Health education is an important activity and forms an
integral part of the National Health Service.
For many years the Council have made an annual grant to
the Central Council for Health Education, which is the body recognised
by the Minister of Health as the medium through which health
education material is distributed throughout England and Wales. For
the year 196l/62, the Council made a grant of £23. 0s. 0d.
Good use was made of the services available, and posters,
leaflets and other material (including copies of "Better Health")
were obtained from the Central Council for distribution in Kensington
During the year three of the six ex-Empire Marketing Board
poster frames still in use were replaced by modern but smaller
boards upon which four double-crown posters (size 30" x 20") can be
displayed.
Posters dealing with a variety of health topics were
displayed at regular intervals during the year on the poster boards
available throughout the borough, and leaflets dealing with health
education were distributed.
HOME SAFETY
The Home Safety Act, 1961, empowers local authorities to
make arrangements for the dissemination of information and advice
relating to the prevention of accidents in the home, and activities
under this heading are combined with the work of health education.